UPDATE 2:52 pm: So we get to hear about this for another month. Lucky us.

Tuesday a judge set a June 17 trial date for deciding whether Kobe Bryant‘s mother can auction off some Kobe memorabilia in her possession. The judge also the two sides to sit down and try to come to an agreement before the trial and not waste the court’s time (well, too late for that, I guess). While it is Kobe and his mother that have the disagreement, the lawyers on that side work for the auction house, Goldin Auctions, which of course stand to make a nice profit off of this auction. If it goes forward.

This is like the argument you had with your mother when you left stuff at her house, except that she just donated or threw out your stuff because it wasn’t worth crap. Kobe’s mom got a $450,000 advance from the auction company (which she used to put a down payment on a house).

Kobe’s argument is simple — it’s my stuff. She can’t sell my stuff. He and his wife said they had asked for the stuff back years ago. He said there was a May 2 phone conversation where he told his mom not to sell the stuff and she agreed. There is a lot more legal jargon and it took high-priced attorneys hours to put together, but that pretty much sums up his claim.

“This conversation never occurred and I never made that statement,” Pamela Bryant said. She added Kobe “never demanded the return of any of the items, nor were they in any way improperly taken from him without his permission.”

“My son gave my wife these items over the years, stating, ‘Here mom, these are for you,’ ” Joe said. He said he advised Kobe to “set up a room in his California house to display the items.” But Joe said Kobe “declined to do so.”

And here we are.

The Bryant family relationship is so strained attorneys need to sort it out in court a couple days after Mother’s Day. That’s sad.

The sheer fact that his Mom ( carried yo butt in my womb 9mths, fed ya, put a roof over your head, provided an environment for you to have a decent childhood)….has to auction off her stuff to upgrade her lifestyle is absolutely absurd.

From a legal standpoint (which it should NEVER get to…..dude you seriously gonna take yo Mom to court)….if he left the stuff at her home all this time, he essentially abandoned it. There’s typically a time frame for which you must re-claim your stuff, otherwise the person holding it for you can dispose of it as they see fit.

Before Colorado he didn’t have respect for women….it’s apparent since Colorado, he still has no respect for even his Mom.

Kobe has given his mother a ton already! The reason she is selling his stuff is because she wants an additional house in Las Vegas that cost 450K and asked him for the money. Remember, he’s already bought her a house (2 actually)! So he told her no, but that he would give her a whopping 250K to put towards it! The fact she wasn’t satisfied with this shows how selfish and greedy she is. She needs to remember that it is his money, not hers.

Kobe already bought his moms a house outside of philly in a very wealthy neighborhood. Some years ago, but she wants a house bigger than his wife’s moms’ house. Which i’m sure Kobe had to chalk up during this whole divorce/get back together incident in his marriage. I have a feeling Kobe’s wife runs it.

I tend to agree but the problem here is that Kobe is a mega-zillionaire, and his parents probably aren’t poor. So there’s no way Kobe “had to” resort to fighting this in Court. He could’ve said, “Hey, Mom & Dad, I’m pissed and I’m not gonna invite you guys to Thanksgiving” and not sued his parents and let it go.

It’s a scale issue. For regular folks, it’s as though Mom threw out a big box of old, used Star Wars action figures which could maybe, possibly, conceivably fetch about $500-1,000 if you worked really hard to find the right buyer. Most of us would just get pissed, chalk it up to family conflict, and then let it go. I guess it’s easy for schlubs like me to say he should just let a million or so bucks go. But there are more important things than a million bucks for someone like Kobe, who’s net worth probably approaches a quarter of a billion dollars if you include his investments and endorsements.

But at the end of the day -it’s stuff! Even if they were 100% in the wrong I’ll be damned if I would sue my parents over some crap. But then again, this is where we’re at in society…the human condition is completely devoid of reason.

Seems like the parents are motivated by greed. I’m pretty sure the Bryant’s are well off…..mainly because of all the money given to them by their son…do you really have to sell his old stuff? Are you that strapped for cash? You need that new house that bad?

The only thing sadder than a publicly-aired family dispute is a disingenuous writer passing along said dispute while simultaneously claiming it’s “sad” and acting as though re-reporting it is some sort of tiresome burden. Leave this manufactured drama to the likes of TMZ.